"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being."

Being, First, Sound

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Being, World

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Being, Right

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

Being, Nobility

"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Being,

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Being, Sense, Words

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Being, May, Opinion, Pride

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Being, Inspirational, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Being, Nothing

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

Being, Cause, School

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

Being, Day, Inventions

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"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."

Truth

"I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer."

Identity

"I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago."

Memory

"This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water."

Time

"I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen."

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

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"I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."

"Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up."

"When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?"

"The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow."

"I'm one of the cliches that has grown up."

"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."

"I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer."

"I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago."

"This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water."

"I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen."